The Plumbing Dies At Dawn

[kestrels_nest]

I am not certain of the exact sequence of events. I know a cat was either involved or witness, because she came running out of the bathroom at a rate normally reserved for flight from cat-eating monsters such as vacuum cleaners and repair people. Seeing her mad dash, and hearing strange sounds continuing to emanate from the bathroom, I went to

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[msminlr]

OUR electrical power went out at a couple of minutes after 6 a.m. today, just as I was reaching for the lid on the 2-liter Classic Coke to jump-start my morning caffeine.

It affected the whole neighborhood, traffic signals and-all.

We were due at the Civil Air Patrol facility by 8 a.m. for some training sessions.

Fortunately, we just had to get dressed [by flashlight] and get over there; yesterday we'd been responsible for bringing the morning donuts-and-such.

When I reported the outage to the electric company, they quoted 9:30-ish for power restoration.

When the sessions wound up about 11 a.m., we headed for a Waffle House, and noticed as we passed Our Exit that the traffic signals were not yet working there. By the time we finished brunch, and got back to our exit, the signals were working, and the power was on in our apartment. By the time flashing on the clock, though it had only been-so for about 5 minutes.

[old_fortissimo]

Ow.

I'm so sorry.